portraits

Gold Bar resident Ken Catron proudly wears his 1980 Military National Finals Bull Ridding Championship Belt buckle, along with the rest of his riding gear. In the rodeo circuit a large buckle is refered to as a “dinner plate” because it is large enough to eat off. Catron won a nationally sponsored Best Dressed Cowboy Contest in 1992.

Professional wrestler Craig Ellingsen a.k.a. Blake Kruel.

A firebreather from the Bindlestiff family circus before a performance in Gainesville, Florida

Kamiak runningback Justin Washington

Kahlotus dry-land wheat farmer Anne Moore uses the Snake River to barge her grain to the market. Breaching the dam would increase the price of shipping her grain.

Manuel Diaz, who is billed as a ‘wolf man’ with the Sterling and Reid Brothers Circus. Diaz has a rare gene disorder causing excessive hair growth, and has been featured on television and in the Guinness Book of World Records. Diaz, from Loreto-Zacatecas, Mexico, performs with other family members greeting circus goers.
“I’m happy, content and not ashamed with who I am.”

Granite Falls volleyball player Denise WIlbur in 2001.

Bronze artist Georgia Gerber with her two larger-than-life pigs at her Clinton home and studio. The pigs will we be cast and duplicated for the “Pigs on Parade” art installation.

Arlington Quarterback Kevin McCormack

Stanwood runningback Julian Bomar.

Snohomish runningback Jake Darling.

At 79-years-old, Delaine Hill, earned her Bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with Honors from the University of Washington at the Bothell campus.

Snohomish High graduate Bryon Brill currently dances with Ballet Bellvue and plans on going to Ballet Austin in Texas with a full scholarship.

Snohomish County Deputy Prosecutor Mark Roe has handled some of the major cases in the county including the death penalty case for Jim Elledge.

Seattle Seahawk fan Rod Svetich only has to smile to show his true colors, a permanently enameled Seahawk logo on his tooth.

Els Gangloff has her own business making glassware in her Snohomish home.

Elvis Presley impersonator Steve Adams has been at it since 1987.

After Guy Tindall’s impending layoff from Boeing, he and his wife Charlotte are afraid of losing their Marysville home.